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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Cowboys suck even more now..... (opposed to what????) | ||||
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| BaLLooN NoT | posted on 08-14-2001 @ 4:00 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | Banks hasn't shown much in preseason -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated Press OXNARD, Calif. -- Tony Banks' tenure with the Dallas Cowboys lasted only two preseason games as the quarterback signed to replace Troy Aikman was released Tuesday. The move came one day after Cowboys officials said the starting quarterback job was up for grabs. Banks, who also lost starting jobs in St. Louis and Baltimore, was told he'd be the opening-day starter when he was signed in March and had his job reaffirmed after Quincy Carter was Dallas' top draft choice in April. Now, as reported by ESPN.com's John Clayton, Carter is working out for the first unit. The salary cap-strapped Cowboys signed Banks to only a $500,000, one-year contract with no signing bonus, a bargain for an NFL starter. Banks was willing to take it for the chance to prove himself and hopefully cash in through free agency next season. Banks' lock on the job appeared to be slipping Monday, when owner Jerry Jones and coach Dave Campo said for the first time they were evaluating all three of their quarterbacks. "That's news to me," Banks said Monday after the first practice since training camp moved to California. Banks went out to practice Tuesday morning but left the field before the workout began. Neither he nor team officials were immediately available for comment. Jones has called Carter the team's quarterback of the future. "Ready? That's a big question mark until game time comes," Carter said. "No one knows if I'm ready or not, but I will definitely be prepared. I think I've got pretty good, strong leadership qualities." Running back Emmitt Smith said Carter is focused on the future. "He's young, learning the system and he's learning to persevere and do whatever it takes to get better," Smith said. Anthony Wright, started the final two games last season, becomes the second stringer and Clint Stoerner will get more action, too. There are no other quarterbacks in camp. Banks first irked coaches by missing a few days of a minicamp while moving. He also didn't spend as much time around Valley Ranch between minicamps as the team would've liked. His performance through two preseason games has been an unimpressive 6-for-14 for 54 yards. But he also hasn't been surrounded by the four best skill-position players -- Emmitt Smith, Joey Galloway, Raghib Ismail and Jackie Harris -- and he's played only a few series in each game. Carter was superb in his preseason debut against Oakland, going 9-for-15 for 167 yards and two touchdowns. He was a mediocre 6-for-11 for 48 yards last Saturday against Denver, although he did lead Dallas within field-goal range twice. Wright has become somewhat of an afterthought. Playing with the third team in the two preseason games, he's 11-for-23 for 100 yards. This is the first time the Cowboys have trained in Southern California's Ventura County since 1989, when they ended a 27-year stay at Cal Lutheran in Thousand Oaks because then-coach Jimmy Johnson wanted to work out in hotter, more grueling conditions.  E-Mail = E-Mail Me AIM = OABaLLooNNoT | ||||
| Drunken GW I Pissed on a Church to get this Status. | posted on 08-14-2001 @ 4:13 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | I'm glad Banks is gone. He couldn't make it on a team where Dilfer got them to the SuperBowl. Good riddance. Give the rookie Carter a shot.  | ||||
| Tequila Fez claims this land in the name of Portugal! Why worry about the train if it never makes it around the tracks?? IrishAlkey wuz here!!! | posted on 08-14-2001 @ 4:17 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jan. 01 | I thought Wright did a great job filling in last year for them. He could get a couple of starts this year.  AOL/AIM - oanda1027fm | ||||
| Cluster F | posted on 08-14-2001 @ 5:02 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | ::Jimmy Johnson voice:: How 'bout them cowboys ::johnson:: reaction: AHHAAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA | ||||
| BaLLooN NoT | posted on 08-14-2001 @ 5:10 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Jones rolls the dice again with Carter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By John Clayton ESPN.com OXNARD, Calif. -- The Troy Aikman era lasted 11 seasons. The Tony Banks era lasted 20 practices. On Tuesday morning, the Dallas Cowboys released Banks, who was under a non-guaranteed, one-year, $500,000 contract and named second-round choice Quincy Carter as the starter, Anthony Wright as the backup and Clint Stoerner as the third quarterback. For now. Owner Jerry Jones labeled it as a bold decision in the mold of the Herschel Walker trade and the decision to name former college coach Jimmy Johnson as head coach. Jones called it an aggressive decision. "Throughout the history of this organization, we have never gotten here by laying up and then hitting into the green; we have gotten there going for it," Jones said. "That really influenced the overall thinking and decision making. We are going for it here. We recognized risks that are involved. We recognized that there is nothing sure except we had success going for it." Campo explained that Carter and Wright, who are young, inexperienced but mobile, better fit the team's new philosophy to be a running team. Over the course of camp, Campo and Jones said they have been meeting to discuss what they call an "organizational decision" as to the direction of the franchise. They liked the enthusiasm of Carter and Wright. Banks is more laid back. During the offseason, he wasn't completely involved in every team offseason program. The veteran quarterback has also struggled in two preseason games and in many of the practices. Banks generated no offensive points in five possessions in two exhibition games. In 29 plays, the offense gained only 99 yards with Banks at the helm. Of course, Banks was operating without the team's most talented weapons. Halfback Emmitt Smith did not play. The team rested wide receivers Raghib Ismail and Joey Galloway, who are coming off knee injuries last season. Tight end David LaFleur is on the physically unable to perform list with a bad back. "It was a step by step decision by everybody involved to realistically look at it from a short-term and long-term situation," Campo said. "It's not necessarily about what Tony didn't do; it's about where we thought at any given time we wanted to go," Jones said. "It is an evolving thing. It always has been. We just have been going through the past seven or eight years where we thought rightly or wrongly that we were more set at some of these key positions and made decisions accordingly. We know now that we are not, and that is not appropriate right now." Jones stopped short of saying the Cowboys are in a rebuilding mode. He said the organization will stay loose and look for player opportunities that could help the team this year and next year. "Don't be surprised," Jones warned, "if all of a sudden a personnel decision is not consistent with what was talked about two months ago." Of the veteran quarterbacks available, Banks appeared to fit the team's deep passing talents. Galloway and Ismail were signed for the big plays. The relationship between Banks and the team seemed to fray Monday after Jones pronounced that the team was making a decision about the top three quarterback positions. Two months ago, Banks was firmly established as the starting quarterback. "That's news to me," Banks said Monday night when reporters informed him that he might not be the starting quarterback as the team began preparations for their exhibition game this week against the Saints. Early Tuesday morning, Jones and Campo informed Banks that they were starting Carter and releasing him. Slightly after 8 a.m., he went onto the field to tell a few players he was gone. At 11:20 a.m. Banks was catching a flight out of the Burbank airport. Carter learned of the news that he was the starter when he came onto the field stretching Tuesday morning. “ I'm not stunned. It's a big opportunity for me. I'm excited. I've got to have fun with it. I've got to lead this football team. †— Quincy Carter, Cowboys' new starting QB "I'm not stunned," Carter said. "It's a big opportunity for me. I'm excited. I've got to have fun with it. I've got to lead this football team. Coach Campo said he was 100 percent behind me. I can't comment on Tony's situation. I'm a rookie remember, so I've got to stand in the rookie's place." Carter was a surprise second-round choice from Georgia. He's 6-foot-2 and 231 pounds and has been known as a good running quarterback. In practices, however, he's more noted for his fluttering passes. Only in games has he thrown consistent sprirals. "Even when I was the third- or fourth-string guy here, I've always been real cheerful," he said. "I know what a quarterback means to this football team. I'm going to keep going about my business the same way I have these last three weeks and I've got to cut down on the flutter balls." Carter completed 15 of 26 passes for 215 yards and two touchdowns in two preseason games. He's had two touchdowns drives in 10 offensive possessions. Jones said the decision to release Banks was more about the progress of Carter and Banks than it was a reflection on Banks. E-Mail = E-Mail Me AIM = OABaLLooNNoT | ||||
| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 08-15-2001 @ 6:59 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Giants will whip their candy asses this year. F the Cowboys. And get them off my tv on Thanksgiving and put some real teams out there. | ||||
| Rone | posted on 08-15-2001 @ 3:13 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | i'm hoping for an 0-16 season. | ||||
| BaLLooN NoT | posted on 08-15-2001 @ 4:31 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | well after dallas lets Banks go the next day the 'skins are gonna give him a look.... With George out, Redskins set meeting with Banks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Len Pasquarelli ESPN.com Proving again that one team's reject usually becomes another club's reclamation project in the NFL, the Washington Redskins will meet Wednesday at their Carlisle, Pa., camp site with free agent quarterback Tony Banks, released Tuesday by the Dallas Cowboys. Washington sources said Wednesday there is "a pretty good chance" that the club will eventually sign Banks to bolster its ailing quarterback corps. One team official said he was unsure of the timetable for dealing with Banks, noted it might not occur until after the Friday night preseason game, but acknowledged the five-year veteran is at the top of the list of the quarterbacks being considered by coach Marty Schottenheimer. In a related matter, it now appears that starter Jeff George, who is recovering from a bout of tendinitis in his throwing (right) shoulder, will not play until the final preseason game, at New England on Aug. 30. George was scheduled to throw briefly, for the first time in more than a week, on Wednesday morning. Banks apparently told friends as he departed the Cowboys' training camp that he wants to take a week or so to think about his future, but appears to have reconsidered. In five seasons, Banks, 28, has appeared in 66 games and started 61 of them. A second-round pick of the St. Louis Rams in the '96 draft, Banks has completed 1,004 of 1,857 passes for 12,047 yards, with 61 touchdown passes and 58 interceptions. In addition to the Rams (1996-98), he also played for Baltimore (1999-2000). It is not known yet if Banks will actually arrive at Carlisle in time to work on the field for Washington officials. Despite their problems at quarterback, Washington on Tuesday decided not to sign unrestricted free agent Danny Kanell, a five-year veteran who played the past two seasons with the Atlanta Falcons. Kanell, 27, worked out for the Redskins coaches and personnel officials early Tuesday afternoon, before the rest of the Washington roster returned to training camp to resume practices. The urgency of signing another quarterback might have been somewhat ameliorated when second-year veteran Todd Husak was able to get on the field despite a strained oblique muscle. Husak participated in some drills, but it will be rookie Sage Rosenfels, a fourth-round draft choice, who will start against the Falcons on Friday night. The only other healthy quarterback on the roster is undrafted free agent Mike Watkins. Although there have been rumors the Redskins would try to land a veteran quarterback in a trade, team officials insisted they were not actively working on any deals. A former Florida State star, Kanell has been playing baseball for an independent minor league team, the Newark Bears, and hitting just .216 with two RBIs in 12 games. A first baseman, he has struck out 14 times in 37 plate appearances. Kanell was a fourth-round choice of the New York Giants in 1996 and played three years for the team before being released in the spring of 1999. He signed a month later with the Falcons, where he knew coach Dan Reeves from their tenure together in New York. He has played in 38 regular-season games and started 22 of them. Kanell has completed 438 of 853 passes for 4,687 yards, with 29 touchdown passes and 29 interceptions. His career passer rating is 64.9. The Redskins have not contacted the agents for unemployed quarterbacks John Friesz, Moses Moreno or Stoney Case but might consider former San Francisco first-rounder Jim Druckenmiller, who played in the XFL this spring.  E-Mail = E-Mail Me AIM = OABaLLooNNoT | ||||
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